Asterock is an early-80s shooter that revisits Asteroids' premise — a ship in a rock field that must dodge and destroy them — with its own design tweaks and the aesthetic of its time. It's representative of how, as soon as an arcade concept hit big, different manufacturers proposed their own variation with more or less personality. It never reached the classic status of its inspiration, but it's a useful piece for tracing the space-rock shooter's genealogy outside Atari's catalog.
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